Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-16
HAD NOTHING TO LOSE.
A CHARGE OF GRAND LARCENY, PREFER
RED AGAINST A GIRL, DISMISSED.
The Principals in the Case However, are Pun
ishsd for 0fsnsss Revealed While They are
Stating the Facts 10 The Court.

There were two cases on trial before
Justice W. H. Davis, yesterday, which
embraced several points Of more than ordi-
nary interest, and which provoked a good
deal of comment during tie afternoon and
evening among those conyersant with the
facts. These causes arose out Of n COM
plant made by a young married man
named Edward McCullOch, hailing from
Spring Hill, Pa to the effect that he had
been robbed Of $50 or $50 early Monday
evening, by Mamie Anderson, an inmate
of Mrs. Annie Keim's house of ill-fame,
on Twenty-firs street. McCulloch visited
the house in company with 3 friend, abont
half-past three or four o'clock in the after
noon, and stayed there about two hours,
his male friend going away and leaving him
after vainly trying TO o McCulloch to
go with him. On leaving the house,
about : o'clock, McCulioch went into
Muldoon's saloon, and there made a state
ment to a friend that he had been robbed
of 500 in Keim's house. The friend, who
saw that MCCulloch wa intoxicated, at
once went to look for an officer, and run
ming across Jack West, told him of the
story. West at once hurried TO the saloon,
found McCulloch and took him over TO the
Keim house. Arriving there, he made in
q~uiries, and was assured by the women in
the place that there was nothing in the
story. West made the most persistent en-
deavorS TO elicit from MCCulloch some
definite story concerning the money he
claimed to have lost, asking particularly
for the denomination of the bills, but
while the alleged victim could talk well
enough on every other subject, he seemed
to have an impeachment in his speech every
time the officer referred 10 the denomina.
tons of the notes, and after an hour or two
the matter was laid aside until morning.
Yesterday morning McCulloch was taken
before Justice Davis, and on his complaint
a warrant was issued for Mamie Anderson
on the charge of grand larceny. The par
ties were soon all got together in the Jus.
tees office, the m and her friends at
the Keim house all the time protesting that
there was nothing in the case. hlcCulloch,
in narrating his grievance, naturally Ie-
ferred to his having been drunk and also
to the object of his visit TO the Keim house.
He reiterated his story of the robbery, ADD
stated that the girl Mamie Anderson had
taken the money from the watch fob of his
trousers aud placed it in her stocking. lie
demonstrated with her, when she told him
to keep his mouth shut or she would cut
his throSt. He said this threat made him
afraid to say anything more about the
money till he got out of the house In view
Of the fact that the girl is very slight,
weighing about s~evcnty-tiVe pounds, while
McCulloch would turn the beam at about
one hundred and sixty a mill man and very
muscular, the story provoked a smile.
When this preliminary statement was
over, the Justice held the girl in $500 for
her appearance at seven o'clock for a hear
ing on the charge of larceny, and then sur
prised those present by announcing tina:
McCollOch was fined $50 and costs for
adultery and 81 and costs for being drunk,
and that in default OF payment he was
committed TO Jail for twenty days. The
girl was also fined $50 and costs tor ;orni-
cation. The couple were thus mulctCl in
heavy penalties for telling 4 straight 81 ry
of the circumstances Attending the c0m-
mission of another crime. While there ia
no doubt that from a neral point they
were deserving punishment, yet legally 1t
is claimed it was unwarrantcd The girl
was ~endeayoriDg to prove her innocence of
a felony charge, while the plaintiff was
trying, apparently, TO recover a aum Of
money which had been stolen from him.
1t was rough both ways, and was well cal
culated to have a very depressing upon fu-
ture witnesses who might Glance to be ar
raigned before that Court, besides tending
to suppress the truth.
At seven o'clock the girl was arraigned
before the Justice upon the charge of steal
ing the money, and McCulloch having
been brought down from Jail by Officer
Wilkie, the hearing proceeded. The
plaintiff told his story first, to this effect:
He had been working at the Wheeling
steel works, at Benwood, and had come
up to Wheeling with a check for 1886. He
got this check cashed at the Exchange
Bank. He paid ont 81 for board, and
than started out with Frank Winam To
have q little time. He had $55-ive ten
dollar bills and one five dollar bill-in his
fob pocket. but told his companion that
the balance of So 80 was all he had. After
drinking at two or three places, the two
went over to Mrs. Keim's. There Winam
borrowed n dollar and left him, and he
spent two dollars and fifty cents in the
house. The girl Mamie Anderson took
his money from his trousers. On
cross examination hi said SIS of the
money had been received by him
from the Amalgamated Association, and
the remainder he had brought with him
from Pennsylvania, but it was shown by
his own statement, made TO witnesses for
the defense at previous times that he had
been out of work in Pennsylvania for a
long time before he came here, that he
beat his way here on the cars, that he
allowed his father-in law tn walk home, a
distance of q hundred miles, or 80, at a
time when he claimed 10 have the $55 in
his pocket, that he had said, Monday, he
intended 10 beat his way back TO Penn
sylvania, that he had come to this city
hungry, aud had been boardeda at the home
OF q friend, which board bill he had pever
paid, and had worn a very dilapidated suit
of clothes in which he complained OF being
cold-aDd sll this time, according % the
claim Just made, he was carrying a roll
around with him.
The testimony Of the witnesses far the
defense knocked the bottom out Of McCul-
loch's improbable claim very completely,
and the case against the girl was dis
missed.
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